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More Factual Relativism

By The Walrus | Published: February 12, 2006

As I wrote in this post, as I think of the GOP’s many awful tactics, one common thread concerns the devaluation of facts and/or evidence as the foundations of a coherent argument. In this vein, two more examples of this phenomenon have occurred recently, and if we unpack and examine the phenomenon in these contexts, [...]

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GOP’s Factual Relativism

By The Walrus | Published: February 11, 2006

Time was, Republicans worried that liberals wanted to infect the United States with cultural relativism, a school of thought whose predilection for understanding other cultures and respecting their varied traditions, as opposed to blowing them up, would cause Americans to lose touch with their moral center. Yet a different kind of relativism has been sneaking [...]

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